A Sketch of Semitic Origins: Social and Religious

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Macmillan, 1902 - 342 עמודים
 

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עמוד 322 - For as in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is discerned, "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual...
עמוד xiii - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature...
עמוד 95 - ... and sorrow is he, Dreaming where the beloved may be. And when the warm south-winds arise, He breathes his longing in fervid sighs, — Quickening odors, kisses of balm, •That drop in the lap of his chosen palm.
עמוד 293 - Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
עמוד 48 - Kadi (q&dhi), or judge of the place, and enter their names and terms in his book, which costs a shilling or thereabout. And joining hands before him the marriage is valid, for better or for worse, till the expiration of the term agreed upon. And if they have a mind to part or renew the contract, they are at liberty to choose for themselves what they judge most proper; but if either wants to separate during the term limited, there must be a commutation of money paid by the separating party to the...
עמוד 64 - have their property in common, the eldest being lord ; all have one wife and it is first come first served, the man who enters to her leaving at the door the stick which it is usual for every one to carry ; but the night she spends with the eldest."* Glaser3 and Winckler4 think that they have found confirmation of this statement in Sabaean and Minaean inscriptions.
עמוד 35 - The complete proof of early totemism in any race involves the following points : (1) the existence of stocks named after plants and animals ; (2) the prevalence of the conception that the members of the stock are of the blood of the eponym animal, or are sprung from a plant of the species chosen as totem ; (3) the ascription to the totem of a sacred character...
עמוד 100 - The circumstances under which it is performed in Arabia point to the origin of circumcision as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility, by which the child was placed under her protection and its reproductive powers consecrated to her service.
עמוד viii - In the preparation of this volume I have been greatly helped by my colleague, Professor Lindley M.
עמוד 4 - The Semitic traditions! all point to Arabia as the original home of the race. It is the only part of the world which has remained exclusively Semite. The racial characteristics — intensity of faith, ferocity, exclusiveness, imagination — can best be explained by a desert origin.

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